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tetrachoric correlation: a standalone construct

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Psychometrics

the estimated correlation between two latent normal variables assumed to underlie a pair of observed dichotomous variables.

In psychometrics, tetrachoric correlation refers to the estimated correlation between two latent normal variables assumed to underlie a pair of observed dichotomous variables. This meaning comes from Pearson (1900) in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character.[1]

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References

  1. Pearson, K. (1900). I. Mathematical contributions to the theory of evolution.: VII. On the correlation of characters not quantitatively measurable. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical or Physical Character, 195(262-273), 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1900.0022

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